EPPP Exam Questions and Answers
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The relationship between nature and intellectual decline - ✔✔increase in response time
The strongest evidence of addiction to substance - ✔✔Physiological tolerance and
withdrawal
The most common neuropsychological complication of AIDS - ✔✔Dementia
What is the function of correction of attenuation - ✔✔Estimate the correlation between
two variables if one or both could be measured without error
If a research results indicated a contradictory findings to your initial hypotheses. In
addition, a moderation effects was found. Your co-worker suggested that you don't
report the moderation effects given that it is tangential to the main research question of
the study. You should: - ✔✔Not take your co-worker's suggestion because this will be
unethical. It conflicts with the psychologist's responsibility to report completely the
results of research project
Thordike's Law of Effects - ✔✔A reward tends to increase the probability of recurrence
of the response it follows.
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,Children's typically take their first steps around the age of? - ✔✔12 months
Tonic-clonic seizures occurs most frequently in.. - ✔✔Grand mal epilepsy
Complex partial seizures occur in which part of the brain - ✔✔Temporal lobe
Women who have had abortions .. - ✔✔the psychological consequences are no worse
than women who have chosen to continue their pregnancies and gave birth.
Under the research on persuasion, the degree to which the receiver's initial position will
change when.... - ✔✔The communicator is credible; the effect will be greater when there
is a larger discrepancy between the communicator's position and the receiver's initial
position
A 10-year old boy who obtained an IQ score of 130. Two years later, he was tested with
an alternative form of the same test. Most likely, the obtained score on the second
testing would be: - ✔✔Less than 130
Specific deleterious effects of unpredictable nose could be reduced by... - ✔✔Allowing
the individual to terminate the noise if it becomes intolerable
Afferent sensory pathways - ✔✔Thalamus
Meta-analysis on the relationship between marital discord and child behavior problems
showed that - ✔✔Boys are more likely than girls to manifest an immediate behavior
problem
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,When interpreting and reporting test results, one should - ✔✔Focus on the confidence
interval of a score rather than only on the obtained score itself.
Feminist therapy - ✔✔- Self-disclosure by the psychologist is specifically recommended
and frequently applied.
- Egalitarian relationship b/w therapist and client
- seeing client's problems in their sociopolitical context
- Encourage trust and respect for other women
Anxiety induced by reading about a car accident some months after having had a car
accident is best described as an instance of - ✔✔Mediated generalization
Intrinsic-motivational theory - ✔✔Predicts a decrease in productivity as the external
reward increases
Maternal employment on children's development... - ✔✔In families of LOW SES, both
sons and daughters of working mothers perform better on measures of cognitive
development than those of non-working mother.
Assessment centers uses a specific personnel selection method called... -
✔✔Performance-based assessment
Psychoanalytic theory suggests that anxiety arises from.. - ✔✔A failure of defenses to
modulate excitation adequately
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, Diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease can be most accurately verified by - ✔✔Brain biopsy
Adlerian theory conceptualizes a child's intention behind their misdemeanor as.. -
✔✔To confirm an assumed disability, or to get attention, power, or revenge
In a skewed distribution with a tail extended to the left, the statistics with the highest
value is... - ✔✔Mode
What factors contributes to a favorable prognosis for psychotherapy? - ✔✔- pre-existing
client factors such as motivation to change, level of misery/ pain
Performance of which type of activity has a positive relationship with age? -
✔✔Knowledge-based judgments with no time pressure
According to classical test theory, the variance of the obtained test scores is equal to... -
✔✔The sum of the true score variance and the error variance
Most effective therapeutic factor for OCD and Agoraphobia is - ✔✔Prolonged exposure
in vivo along with response prevention
The most frequent findings of studies on human beings with "split brain" is that.. -
✔✔Certain kinds of visuospatial tasks are performed better by the right hemisphere
than the left.
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The relationship between nature and intellectual decline - ✔✔increase in response time
The strongest evidence of addiction to substance - ✔✔Physiological tolerance and
withdrawal
The most common neuropsychological complication of AIDS - ✔✔Dementia
What is the function of correction of attenuation - ✔✔Estimate the correlation between
two variables if one or both could be measured without error
If a research results indicated a contradictory findings to your initial hypotheses. In
addition, a moderation effects was found. Your co-worker suggested that you don't
report the moderation effects given that it is tangential to the main research question of
the study. You should: - ✔✔Not take your co-worker's suggestion because this will be
unethical. It conflicts with the psychologist's responsibility to report completely the
results of research project
Thordike's Law of Effects - ✔✔A reward tends to increase the probability of recurrence
of the response it follows.
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,Children's typically take their first steps around the age of? - ✔✔12 months
Tonic-clonic seizures occurs most frequently in.. - ✔✔Grand mal epilepsy
Complex partial seizures occur in which part of the brain - ✔✔Temporal lobe
Women who have had abortions .. - ✔✔the psychological consequences are no worse
than women who have chosen to continue their pregnancies and gave birth.
Under the research on persuasion, the degree to which the receiver's initial position will
change when.... - ✔✔The communicator is credible; the effect will be greater when there
is a larger discrepancy between the communicator's position and the receiver's initial
position
A 10-year old boy who obtained an IQ score of 130. Two years later, he was tested with
an alternative form of the same test. Most likely, the obtained score on the second
testing would be: - ✔✔Less than 130
Specific deleterious effects of unpredictable nose could be reduced by... - ✔✔Allowing
the individual to terminate the noise if it becomes intolerable
Afferent sensory pathways - ✔✔Thalamus
Meta-analysis on the relationship between marital discord and child behavior problems
showed that - ✔✔Boys are more likely than girls to manifest an immediate behavior
problem
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,When interpreting and reporting test results, one should - ✔✔Focus on the confidence
interval of a score rather than only on the obtained score itself.
Feminist therapy - ✔✔- Self-disclosure by the psychologist is specifically recommended
and frequently applied.
- Egalitarian relationship b/w therapist and client
- seeing client's problems in their sociopolitical context
- Encourage trust and respect for other women
Anxiety induced by reading about a car accident some months after having had a car
accident is best described as an instance of - ✔✔Mediated generalization
Intrinsic-motivational theory - ✔✔Predicts a decrease in productivity as the external
reward increases
Maternal employment on children's development... - ✔✔In families of LOW SES, both
sons and daughters of working mothers perform better on measures of cognitive
development than those of non-working mother.
Assessment centers uses a specific personnel selection method called... -
✔✔Performance-based assessment
Psychoanalytic theory suggests that anxiety arises from.. - ✔✔A failure of defenses to
modulate excitation adequately
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, Diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease can be most accurately verified by - ✔✔Brain biopsy
Adlerian theory conceptualizes a child's intention behind their misdemeanor as.. -
✔✔To confirm an assumed disability, or to get attention, power, or revenge
In a skewed distribution with a tail extended to the left, the statistics with the highest
value is... - ✔✔Mode
What factors contributes to a favorable prognosis for psychotherapy? - ✔✔- pre-existing
client factors such as motivation to change, level of misery/ pain
Performance of which type of activity has a positive relationship with age? -
✔✔Knowledge-based judgments with no time pressure
According to classical test theory, the variance of the obtained test scores is equal to... -
✔✔The sum of the true score variance and the error variance
Most effective therapeutic factor for OCD and Agoraphobia is - ✔✔Prolonged exposure
in vivo along with response prevention
The most frequent findings of studies on human beings with "split brain" is that.. -
✔✔Certain kinds of visuospatial tasks are performed better by the right hemisphere
than the left.
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